Quotes About Logic

He perfectly fits the profile of a Hut 8 man, who need not know anything except pure math.

Well, it's all math," he says. "If the math works, why then you should be sure of yourself. That's the whole point of math.

He divides his time between thinking about sex and thinking about mathematics.

Don't do anything stupid, okay? I won't, I tell her, and that's not a lie. What I'm doing makes a lot of sense.

Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?

To govern a society shared by people of emotion, people of reason, and everybody in between—as well as people who think their actions are shaped by logic but in fact are shaped by feelings or nonempirical philosophies—you need politics.

The former pair offered physics and logic; the latter offered primarily politics and fear plus a

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe it.

after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

Logically, I know I'm being controlled by my emotions. But my logic is just 2 percent right now. I feel emotionally raw. [Mystery] clenched his bedsheet in his fist. I feel strange and empty, like after a shit.

Who knows? Why do women do anything they do? Except for you," George amended, as he always did. "You're logical.

When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone. I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.

The cell wanted to overthrow the government and to do that, they were hurting their own people. Draden had never seen the logic in that, how could they convince themselves that what they were doing was justified because they believed in the endgame.

It is not reasonable to presume an eighty-year-old mortal could survive an attack," Mikhail answered grimly. "It is not logical to presume anything," Gregori reminded as he glided up onto the porch.

Gregori's silver eyes moved over both women, then settled on Shea. "The child must be protected. It is no use appealing to Raven for logic, as she has none, and Mikhail is so besotted with her that he does not see his first duty, so it is up to you. For the sake of all of us, you must protect this child.

Vittorio, always the one to seek solutions verbally, had no middle gear. Either he was talking logically, or he was acting, and when he went into action, he made every blow count.

The problem, he decided, was that once your heart was involved, all logic went out the window.